Judgment of Paris: Napa Valley’s Wine Shocks the World

In this wine collecting video, John Jackson, DipWSET a/k/a Attorney Somm discusses the Judgment of Paris, which is a wine tasting between top French wines and wines from California and the Napa Valley in 1976. Attorney Somm discusses the results of the Paris Tasting and how that led to Napa Valley’s rise to prominence in the world of wine!

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In 1976 Steven spier was operating a wine shop in Paris he enjoyed featuring upand cominging Wines in his store and he had recently been to California and was very impressed with a number of the wines including lots of wines from Napa Valley he ended up purchasing about 30

Of those wines and brought them back to Paris and then he subsequently arranged to have a tasting competition there were two different categories of wines that were tasted at the blind tasting one of them was a red wine category and that was based on Cabernet sovon wines and

There was a white wine category as well that was for chardonay the red wine category included six wines from California and four wines from Mr Spur’s seller all of which were from France examples included the 1970 muton rosch and also the 1970 opron so certainly very stiff competition for the

California wines the white wine category likewise featured 10 win six of which were chardonay from California and four of which were white burgundy from Mr Spurrier seller the white burgundy included the very costly and prestigious Batar Mont ret so certainly an impressive white lineup to compete with the California entries as

Well at the time the French wines were certainly dominant and widely considered to be the very best wines in the entire world in contrast Napa Valley and California wines generally were not even a blip on the wine radar screen so this was very much of a David versus

Goliath fight and the French judges totally expected that the French wines would Dominate and that the California wines would be outclassed even during the tasting for example one of the judges tasting a Chardonnay would say something like this is obviously a California wine because there’s absolutely no aromatics well as

It turned out that was the very expensive guar Mont ré which finished a disappointing seven out of 10 and in fact in the white wine category it turns out that the California Wines had three of the top five entries including the overall winner which was the 1973 Chateau Montelena chardonay at

That time the Chateau Montelena sold for a $650 per bottle which was a small fraction of the cost of the white burgundies that it beat likewise the California wines did well in the red category also with a 1973 Stags winning the overall red category and narrowly edging out the 1970

Muton so the fact that Napa Valley won both the white wine and the red wine categories definitely showed the world that Napa Valley was the source of worldclass wines and this led to an avalanche of investment in Napa Valley while wine making traces its roots in

Napa Valley way back to the 1830s and there were more than 140 wineries by 1889 the industry was devastated by events like felox the Great Depression prohibition and also two world wars while there certainly were some wineries that were operating throughout this time period in NAA Valley it was really the

Tasting at Paris that allowed Napa Valley to achieve widespread recognition and which led to the dramatic growth that would follow to its credit even muton got involved as the owners of muton rosch child teamed up with mandavi to create Opus One which had its first vintage in 1979